The late Argentine pope also used his 2024 annual peace message to call for an international treaty to ensure AI is developed and used ethically, arguing that a technology lacking human values of compassion, mercy, morality and forgiveness is too perilous to develop unchecked.

Pope Leo XIV has set out the vision of his papacy and identified artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity. In his first formal audience, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernising reforms of his predecessor Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church inclusive,

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others will ever hold